Marek manages Catalus Capital, a special opportunities focused fund that makes structured equity and debt investments backed by cash flow and/or hard assets. It invests $10m-$40m to support acquisitions, growth, recapitalizations, and special situations. Marek was previously a Managing Director of Corporate Strategy and M&A at Nasdaq, an S&P 500 company with a market capitalization of over $10 billion. In this capacity he led the evaluation of dozens of corporate mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and investments. Preceding Nasdaq, Marek was an Investment Banking Analyst at Fieldstone Private Capital. Throughout his career Marek has been involved in a number of entrepreneurial ventures and investments.

Marek graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a major in Economics and a minor in Urban Real Estate from The Wharton School.